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Perhaps Reagan, JFK and FDR are to blame for this travesty of the political process. The efforts of these three men so finely tuned modern political tools of mass communication that we've forgotten that presidents are just citizens. Now, they're just an electron-etched face placed next to a bust of Lincoln. Let's face it, we're spoiled. Candidates have to meet our mass-culture image of the presidency to be considered worthy of our vote...
Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams was the surprise winner of the 1986 American Book Award for nonfiction. This collection of short pieces about the American Southwest, Alaska, endangered wildlife and forgotten cultures is in the same vein. Much of the ground covered is by now well trodden, though Lopez has a light step. He glides over pre-Columbian history, kicking up bits of ornithology, geology and marine biology. His best entry is about beached whales on the Oregon coast and the peculiar behavior these leviathans caused in the local population. The author is a clear and patient observer whose literary...
...would become. There is the party's Washington establishment, dedicated to whittling away at Reaganism by deft compromises, which is what Gephardt belonged to until his self-reinvention. He was also once associated with the Atari Democrats, though Dukakis now might have more of a claim to that half- forgotten label. The old-fashioned liberals have Paul Simon to carry their banner, at least until it becomes clear that there are not quite enough of them. Jackson splinters away not only blacks but a mini-rainbow of alienated voters. And now that Gephardt no longer lays claim to the party...
...often forgotten that democracy is an idea and that, like most great insights, it is not without paradox. One paradox is what to do with characters such as Socrates, who are vocal in their profound opposition to the democratic idea. Stone knows that the classic authors must be read, if only so that we can better refute them...
...what about these "piles of books" in garages, homes, stores, libraries? What prevents all of us from turning them into glowing pyres that would light the nights for miles? Many of them have no value. Most will be forgotten. They will be destroyed--by men like Kelly's father at his pulp plant...